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Kenji Eno is probably best known as the creator of the D horror titles, but I'll always think of him as a man who made games in which the smallest things really mattered. Besides his early spine-chillers, the designer and musician, who died yesterday from heart failure at the age of 42, also crafted One-Dot Enemies, which remains amongst the most stylish and striking and instantly appealing games on iOS, and the wonderfully titled You, Me and the Cubes, a surprisingly tense puzzler that gave WiiWare fans a rare combination of artful quirk and attention to detail.
One's concerned with squishing tiny pixel-sized bugs and another revolves around flinging a series of colourful misfits onto floating blocks, but both these games share a warm and yet strangely precise kind of playfulness, and a skewed outlook that seems singularly unforced. They're weird and off-beat because the man who helped create them was weird and off-beat; spend time with them and they actually start to make an odd kind of sense.
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